Sonu Niigaam arrived onto the Indi Pop scene with his album Sapnon Ki Baat for T-Series. Today he has to his credit more than 200 episodes of ‘Sa Re Ga Ma’. The show not only gave him the opportunity to interact with some of India’s topmost exponents of music but it also brought him face to face with th 930 e audience many of whom soon became his fans. Apart from many film and pop album offers, he also got what he considers to be an opportunity of a lifetime and that was to host the musical show ‘TVS Sa Re Ga Ma’. The young singer started receiving many offers after ‘Accha Sila Diya’ became a hit. The song that really made Sonu Niigaam famous was ‘Accha Sila Diya Tune Mere Pyar Ka’ for the film Bewafa Sanam.
He had sung five songs in the film out of which the first four were rejected but the fifth song was the one that that Gulshan Kumar heard and summoned him. Sonu was left cursing his luck as two of his very good songs were being sung by another singer and his songs were not even being heard. However fate had something else in store for Sonu as the song got dubbed by SP Balasubramaniam. But he was clearly told by the composer that he would keep the song only if he found it good enough. He recorded his first song for the film Aaja Meri Jaan courtesy Usha Khanna who introduced him to composer Amar Utpal. All this motivated Sonu to achieve all the things that his father was deprived of and with dreams in his eyes he came to Mumbai in the hope of becoming a singer. His self-pride too very often acted as a hindrance to his progress. Though Sonu’s father was talented, however he never had the will and the drive to make it big in the world of music. Rafi song ‘Kya Hua Tera Vaada’ from Hum Kisise Kum Nahin.His father’s lack of ambition was what drove Sonu to tread on the path of success. Only three years old, while accompanying his father for a show, Sonu gave his first public performance in the town of Jind by singing the popular Mohd. After bagging every possible singing competition at the junior level, there came a point when Sonu was not permitted to compete in not only his own category, but the senior categories as well! The organizers then had to resort to calling him as chief guest! He moved to Mumbai at the age of 18 but stopped giving stage performances here, as his father felt this would affect his future career. He began competing in music competitions. Young Sonu debuted on stage at the age of three, with a rousing rendition of ‘Kya Hua Tera Vada’ and began accompanying his father’s troupe at wedding parties and festivals. Sonu’s father is Agam Kumar, a very popular stage singer in the provincial circuit. Along with his father he also started singing in birthdays and marriage ceremonies in Delhi. Many people do not know this but Sonu Niigaam acted as a child artiste in films like Kaamchor, Ustadi Ustad Se, Hum Se Hai Zamana, Taqdeer and Betaab. To support himself he started taking on bit roles in movies. Life was not smooth for the aspiring singer. His father Agam Kumar's passion for music was soon imbibed by Sonu in his early years and he soon began training under him.He studied only till the 12th standard in Delhi and coming to Mumbai he decided on a correspondence graduate program.
The family soon moved to Delhi where the singer spent most of his formative years. Sonu Nigam was born on the 30th of July, 1973 in Faridabad, Haryana.
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